Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured, sentence 20

A wave fell on a ship and sunk it down with a thrust, stern as though a whole sky had tumbled at it, and the barque did not cease to go down until it crashed and sank in the sand at the bottom of the sea.

Who acts: wave, barque, frightened · What happens: fall, sunk down, tumble, not cease, go down, crash · To what, where: ship, frightened, whole sky, sand

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wave, barque, frightened), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wave	det
2	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 ship	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ship	det
6	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sunk	cc
8	sunk	sunk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fell	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sunk	obj
10	down	down	ADP	_	8 sunk	compound:prt
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 thrust	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 thrust	det
13	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sunk	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stern	punct
15	stern	stern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thrust	amod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 tumbled	mark
17	though	though	SCONJ	_	22 tumbled	mark
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 sky	det
19	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sky	amod
20	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tumbled	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 tumbled	aux
22	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 stern	advcl
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 tumbled	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cease	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 cease	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 barque	det
28	barque	barque	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cease	nsubj
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 cease	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 cease	advmod
31	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fell	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 go	mark
33	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 cease	xcomp
34	down	down	ADV	_	33 go	advmod
35	until	until	SCONJ	_	37 crashed	mark
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 crashed	nsubj
37	crashed	crash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 go	advcl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 sank	cc
39	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 sand	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 sand	det
42	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sank	obl
43	at	at	ADP	_	45 bottom	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 bottom	det
45	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sank	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 sea	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 sea	det
48	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 bottom	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	a wave		a ship		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ship=Location
2	sunk down	infinitive	a wave not said here	frightened		with a thrust	tree rules
3	tumble	past · perfect · passive		a whole sky	frightened		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	not cease	past · do-support	the barque				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	go down	to-infinitive	the barque not said here			down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	crash	past	frightened				vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	sink	past	a wave not said here		the sand	at the bottom of the sea	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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